Canadians should not be charged for entering a national park. Our taxes have paid for those parks already. Any non- Canadians should be charged. A small fee for back country camping and trail usage is not wrong. We have been our worst enemy. Leaving messes and trail damage. Therefore we should pay. For every back country camp group, a license # should be recorded and that should be the person responsible for clean up of the area. If not cleaned up, fined.
Could it be that "WE" are not all lumped together in a group that willfully damages the landscape and leaves the mess?Could it not be plausible that our existing high taxes cover the enforcement part of this matter and that the enforcement has some teeth to it covering the cleanup costs when actual offenders are found doing it?Would adding another fee that would have to administered and enforced be just another unenforceable burden put on the already ineffective enforcement process and load?Think about this scenario: A group of responsible campers sets up a nice respectful camp back in the bush on a little clearing on a cutline along a creek. Warden Schmitt sees some tracks in there drops by on Friday evening and records their $30 sticker and license plate info. They pull out Saturday late afternoon and the site is clean. That evening a bunch of hooligans pull in and have booze party, cut down a bunch of live trees, do some donuts with their quads tearing up the area, camp for the night and pull out in the morning leaving a pile of garbage and broken bottles behind. Busy warden Schmitt rolls back through there on Sunday afternoon and finds the mess. What does he do, call up and fine the group with the $30 sticker? See what I mean, unenforceable.
Better answer for me would just say no to added taxes, thanks.I'd have to say I pay enough with the 40% plus that I am taxed already.That already covers enforcement of our existing laws.
Sounds to me like if the UCP gets in it might cost you $30/year to use the back country.If the NDP gets in you might not be able to use the back country.I think I'll choose the $30 route. Besides seniors get in free right? Just like the fishing licences?
Yup, I think I can afford $2.50/ month.
LOL ya, I can afford 80 cents a day as well but that isn't the point. If the government thinks there is a problem to be solved there is a heck of a pool to pull from if they make the effort and decide it is a priority. I've said it before and I'll say it again, the biggest problem for the next generation is going to be tax burden/cost of living at this rate, we need the governments to start taking less not more.
HERE, HERE, Axe and OL, It's about freedom of the land, freedom of to much Government, and freedom of Socialist and Liberal's telling me what I can do and not do with every step I take. I am a UPC supporter, but I will also make it very clear to them that I will not pay to access crown land. Hell they do that enough with national parks and provincial camp grounds, both of which I will never step foot in again and pay 1 red cent to.
I totally agree with you. But, as it stands, at the moment, its parks or 8 cents a day. Hopefully, there is enough intelligence in Alberta that we will have the ability to rescind the 8 cents if that's what people want.